“…Because it is known that glucose uptake may be influenced by factors such as feeding/fasting, exposure to low/high temperature, exercise, oxidative stress, several liver pathologies, such as steatosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver infections, for example, by hepatitis C virus (Cunningham et al, 1985;Pencek et al, 2004;Bitar et al, 2005;Bechmann et al, 2012;Moore et al, 2012;Vidyashankar et al, 2012;Yu et al, 2013), we sought to assess the specificity of the P. berghei-induced increase in glucose uptake by infected Huh7 cells. To this end, we measured 2-NBDG uptake by Huh7 cells subjected to conditions known to induce low-temperature stress in various types of mammalian cells (Fujita, 1999), high-temperature A. Huh7 cells were infected with luciferase-expressing P. berghei sporozoites, and the culture medium was replaced 2 hpi by medium with different concentrations of glucose.…”